Oh. I didn't realize that Mbps meant megabits per second. I thought it meant megabytes per second. Oh well.So how long did it take? How fast is your internet speed package? Well if your terminology is right then 90 megabits per second is a transfer rate of only 11.25 Megabytes per second.
And interfaces such as SATA, PCI-E, Thunderbolt, USB, etc. are all measured in Megabits per second.Everything in the networking world is in bits per second.
And it's not that different than harddrive manufactures selling you a 5TB drive that's 5000000000000 bytes not 5497558138880 bytes as that's what every OS out there thinks 5TB is.
Eh, debatable. A transmission medium like a PCIE bus or network wire doesn't really give two craps about 8 bits being allocated in a byte, it simply transits data on a 0 or 1 basis.I think it's safe to say it has a dual purpose as well in the ISP marketing scheme.
Shrug, easy to say with a one dimensional mindset.I don't think the consumer gives two shits about tech metrics. Marketing is big business.
The use of a "bit" to measure network speeds has been around way before the establishment of the "Internet" you know of. It was at that time, very difficult to measure everything in bytes because back then, 1 byte wasn't necessarily 8 bits. 8 bit became popular when Intel released the 8080. More and more competitors adopted the 8-bit microprocessing and that's probably what made 8-bit = 1 byte, since that basically means that 8 bits = 1 chunk of data (byte).Really? You honestly think that if a ISP advertises 3.75 MBps vs 30 Mbps isn't a good marketing ploy? Do you work for Comcast or something?
It has nothing to do with advertising, it's because almost all transmission speeds are measured in bits, not bytes. A SATA hard drive is listed as 6Gbps. A network card is measures as 100Mbps, 1Gbps, etc. A PCI-E bus interface is measured in Gbps. There is nothing deceiving about it, they are pushing x number of megabits per second down their pipe.Really? You honestly think that if a ISP advertises 3.75 MBps vs 30 Mbps isn't a good marketing ploy? Do you work for Comcast or something?
Whether the tech world use bits per second or not, I think it's safe to say it has a dual purpose as well in the ISP marketing scheme. It just sounds better to say your connection will be a blazing 30 Mbps instead of 3.75 MBps.
We did.Jesus christ. Look what I said FFS!
I think ISP's love to use the asinine bit per second so that the speed looks higher than it really is. I could only imagine. They advertise a 25/6 Mbps connection when that's really a 3/.750 connection. Doesn't look good does it?
It just sounds better to say your connection will be a blazing 30 Mbps instead of 3.75 MBps.
I don't think the consumer gives two shits about tech metrics. Marketing is big business.
Really? You honestly think that if a ISP advertises 3.75 MBps vs 30 Mbps isn't a good marketing ploy? Do you work for Comcast or something?
So... why are you suggesting otherwise?I know it's a legit way of saying things
Because that's what everyone in that profession uses to measure network transfer speeds. ISP isn't misleading anyone. It's only confusing people who don't understand what a bit is vs what a byte is and the history behind it. You let them know the reason to all this and I'm pretty certain that they'll understand why and agree to the terminology used.but I know damn well ISPs love to use bits instead of bytes.
Yeah you're pretty stupid alright.The stupid is strong with this one.